[HEADSUP] Upcoming GNU sort removal

[Dennis Glatting]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 18:16 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Em 04-10-2012 16:50, Dennis Glatting escreveu:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:53 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > it has been more than 3 months ago that BSD sort became default in HEAD
> >> > and no serious complaints have been raised against it since then so I
> >> > plan to permanently remove GNU sort from head in the next days. If you
> >> > have any objection, please raise it now.
> >> > 
> > Initially I had problems with multi TB files (--unique, five to ten
> > files) but I haven't had to do that in two(?) months. I will be getting
> > back to that project in a month or so.
> > 
> > It challanges a system's resources. :)
> 
> And did it go much better with base GNU sort? It's quite an extreme
> case... :) Multi GB is also rare not speaking about multi TB...
> 


Yes. However my problem now is ZFS stability -- typically locking up,
case example today:


last pid: 67998;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    up 1+19:50:51
19:02:10
80 processes:  1 running, 79 sleeping
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 146M Active, 2765M Inact, 35G Wired, 371M Buf, 86G Free
ARC: 32G Total, 4141M MRU, 27G MFU, 55M Anon, 485M Header, 614M Other
Swap: 233G Total, 233G Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU
COMMAND
17517 root         17  42    4   217M   128M tx->tx 21  25.3H  0.00%
pbzip2
17568 root         17  52    4   201M   116M tx->tx 24  25.2H  0.00%
pbzip2
17508 root         17  46    4   201M   116M tx->tx 33  24.6H  0.00%
pbzip2
17544 root         17  52    4   205M   120M tx->tx 37  24.6H  0.00%
pbzip2
17532 root         17  52    4   209M   123M tx->tx 35  24.5H  0.00%
pbzip2

etc.